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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Google's Intelligence Designer
Demis Hassabis started playing chess at age four and soon blossomed into a child prodigy.
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A 24-Hour Social Innovation Hackathon to Fight World Hunger
In late November, people gathered at the University of California, Berkeley to participate in a Social Innovation Hackathon.
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Csedweek Gains Momentum
The Hour of Code event alone could have as many as 100 million participants worldwide.
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A Googler's Quest to Teach Machines How to nderstand Emotions
Quoc Le sees the world as a series of numbers.
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Gregarious and Direct: China's Web Doorkeeper
When a major Chinese-American Internet conference convenes in Washington on Tuesday, a middle-aged Communist Party propaganda chief will be seated amid a room full...
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Co-Robots Team Up With Humans
A group of researchers believe people and robots will be able to accomplish much more by working together, as long as robots have common sense.
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Tech’s Gender Gap Wasn’t Always So Bad. Here’s How It Got Worse
A new documentary film called CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap explores the glaring lack of American female and minority computer science engineers.
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Decoding the Language of Human Movement
Computers that recognize what is happening in moving images can help defend against crime, and revolutionize rehabilitation.
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Linguistic Mapping Reveals How Word Meanings Sometimes Change Overnight
To track how language evolves, Stony Brook University researcher Vivek Kulkarni and colleagues map the linguistic vector space of words.
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Fulbright Award Takes Computer Scientist to France
An Arizona State University professor will spend six months studying at the French Institute for Research in Computer Science Automation.
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Machine-Learning Algorithm Ranks the World's Most Notable Authors
New software automatically ranks authors and creators whose work is in the public domain by how likely they are to be of interest to academics and the public.
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Stanford Cyber Initiative Will Tackle Internet Technology Concerns From Many Angles
The Stanford Cyber Initiative is a program applying broad Stanford University expertise to cybersecurity, cyberspace, and networked information.
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Hour of Code to Feature 'frozen' Characters
Educational nonprofit Code.org is collaborating with Disney to open its week-long "Hour of Code" event during Computer Science Education Week Dec. 8-14.
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Workers in Silicon Valley Weigh In on Obama's Immigration Order
Silicon Valley's constant stream of new apps and services depends on hundreds of thousands of foreign-born engineers to help create them.
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Ncwit Launches an Online Tool, Developed with Google, For Diversifying Computing Degree Recipients
A new National Center for Women & Information Technology program encourages development of more inclusive learning environments in computer science courses.
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Faculty Research Reveals Software Improving in Ability to Analyze, Score Writing
Software for evaluating human writing is improving and expanding in use.
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Cats and Athletes Teach Robots to Fall
Researchers are studying feline and human behavior during falls with the goal of applying its physics to robotic landings.
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Scientific Computing's Future: Can Any Coding Language Top a 1950s Behemoth?
Cutting-edge research still universally involves Fortran; a trio of challengers wants in.
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Gift From Ballmer Will Expand Computer Science Faculty at Harvard
Former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer will make a financial contribution to Harvard that will enable the school to expand its computer science faculty...
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